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Professor Keyoumars Ashkan on behalf of the London Neurosurgery Partnership is delighted to offer the Dorsal Root Ganglion (DRG) Stimulation to our patients at The Harley Street Clinic, as a part of his neuromodulation practice for intractable pain management.

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has been used successfully to treat patients with chronic neuropathic pain for over 30 years and has National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approval.1 It is very effective for certain pain conditions, but there are some pain locations that can be difficult to target with conventional SCS or the stimulation can be too widespread and this in itself can be unpleasant for patients with focal pain to deal with.

There is now a new form of spinal cord stimulation available that targets the dorsal root ganglion (DRG) and this is particularly effective for focal pain or distal extremity pain. This form of treatment is the most effective in treating the following conditions:

Foot or hand pain (CRPS or post-surgical neuropathic pain),

Groin pain

Post-surgical scar pain (e.g. after hernia repair)

Neuropathic knee pain (e.g after knee surgery)

Diabetic neuropathy

Thoracic pain post surgery

Post-amputation pain.

There is now Level 1 evidence for DRG stimulation from the ACCURATE Study. This is the largest randomized, controlled neuromodulation trial in CRPS and peripheral causalgia patients and it was conducted to provide evidence of safety and efficacy for market approval in the United States.

Sarah Ballis, our Clinical Dietitian at The Harley Street Clinic, discusses Diabetes and ways of improving your health through healthy dieting. There are 4.5 million people diagnosed with diabetes in the UK and an estimated 1.1 million people who have the condition, but don’t know it [1]. Diabetes is a group of metabolic disorders in which […]

The London CyberKnife Centre at The Harley Street Clinic, part of HCA Healthcare UK, has been rated Outstanding by national regulators the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The Centre, home to the UK’s first robotic CyberKnife radiotherapy machine, offers treatment to patients with tumours and other medical conditions that may previously have been considered inoperable or […]

Mr Ranjeev Bhangoo, Neuro Surgeon at The Harley Street Clinic, will be performing a revolutionary brain tumour keyhole treatment which could double the number of patients receiving lifesaving operations in the UK. The new device, called BrainPath, will be used on a British patient for the first time next month which has already saved thousands […]

1 in 7 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime. Currently treatment of this condition can sometimes be complex and difficult. Radiotherapy is the preferred method, but due to the proximity of healthy structures and movement of the prostate gland itself, doses are limited. The Harley Street Hospital uses the Calypso® tracking system […]